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> Idk, it's a company with 4.5B in revenues in H1 2025. giving away dollar bills for a nickel each is not particularly impressive
by blibble 1y ago
> Idk, it's a company with 4.5B in revenues in H1 2025.
giving away dollar bills for a nickel each is not particularly impressive
- kevmo314 1y agoI would be pretty impressed by anyone who managed to do that nominally. Moving a dozen billion dollars alone seems not trivial to do.
- dreamcompiler 1y agoBlowing a giant hole in Hoover Dam while somebody pees in Lake Mead would also be impressive. It just won't stay impressive for very long. Even if the guy peeing is a world champion urinator named Sam.
- blibble 1y agoturns losing money scales well you can even pay people to help you out, and that helps even more!
- epolanski 1y agoOkay, but do you see it so hard to consider the point of who thinks that they can 5/10/20x their current revenues without seeing similar ballooning in costs long term?
- fragmede 1y agoIt is when no one knows they're dollar bills. Obviously, I take those dollar bills to the bank and make $0.95. Easy money. But how about when it's not a dollar bill, but a conversation with a robot? And that robot lies and kinda sucks? Why would anyone even pay nickles to see that show? Haven't they heard there's free porn on the Internet they can watch? Free! If people are getting $20 or even $200 / months's worth of something out of the robot that's kinda dumb and lies, to the tune of $4.5 B in 6 months, which works out to be $750 million/month, it seems our priors, that this robot is dumb and kinda sucks, maybe isn't quite that dumb, even if it does lie occasionally?